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Aha, the web page talks about "chroma subsampling", makes sense now. So saving less chroma than luma (color vs intensity) information.
The full version of the Steve Jobs rumor was that he would fire you, on the spot, if he didn't like your answer. To this day, I think it was a myth that they used to spread to the newbies to keep them sharp and focused. And with Jobs's passing, we'll never know the truth now (unless someone was fired in such an encounter, and wants to speak up?).

Regardless of whether one's ass is on the line in an elevator pitch, it's still good advice. Especially because you're going to have to make that pitch about a million times throughout your life. So it's not just about intriguing The Boss; it's about intriguing everybody. (Or not losing everybody's attention, depending on how you want to look at it).
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News reports in Hong Kong can result in queries in Louisiana. Not sure there is a geo-location link between Google queries and symptoms experienced.

How about queries regarding drug store locations or treatments? That might translate to geography. Or maybe that's already what they do?
"Because telling you about Appsterdam, it's real simple. If you wanna make apps, come to Appsterdam, it's awesome. You wanna know more about it? Google it. You wanna know why Appsterdam is a thing, what Appsterdam is all about and what kind of insanity leads a person build their own ecosystem before building a company? That's what I'm going to talk about. And I'm going to talk about it honestly. That means there is going to be some swearing. So if that is going to offend you I suggest you just go ahead and ... leave. For the rest of you: It's real simple. -- Do something that actually fucking matters."

The arrogance and self-importance of the speaker made me quit after 60 seconds.
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Alright, I intended to post this: http://intertwingly.net/blog/2010/07/18/Community-over-Code

which is about the link I posted, so...
Well first off I usually release something after a few weeks of development there's no need to go so long (3 years) before releasing. It doesn't need to be perfect, as Seth Godin would say "Ship the damn product". Find your users (if they exist), engage with them and if you have a viable/useful product they will use it.
This works because this filter will match every mail, not just the mails that have the spam label. In the end it does what you wanted but the error is still right.
>It also doesn't help that photoshop bloats jpegs by adding hidden adobe meta to every jpeg (beyond and different from exif).

I believe if you use "Save for Web", it will strip out most metadata and EXIF from the image before saving. Here's a result of using "Save for Web" (1.jpg), passing through JPEGTRAN with `-copy none -optimize` (2.jpg) and `JFIFREMOVE` (3.jpg):

330090 1.jpg
329916 2.jpg
329898 3.jpg
Joe Google Flu Trends is pretty good at tracking geo-mapped disease trends. They track all related queries (symptoms, drugs, treatments etc). Take a look at the nature paper they wrote in 2008: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v457/n7232/full/nature0... . The trend are fairly nicely correlated with CDC data. Our system takes these trends and convert them into epidemic alerts.
This is like comparing apples and oranges. I'm inclined to think that the creator of this video is biased towards AeroFS.
Wait, what? So instead of typing file:///home/username/site/index.html this program lets you type http://site.dev? If there was ever undeniable proof that Mac users are clinically retarded...
The general theory on this is that if the results are important and something people can build on, when other labs try the latter they discover something's wrong.

Things get messy where the results are viewed as important but they don't naturally lead to more dependent experiments, at least not any time soon. Look at the epidemiological research on dietary fat over the last 40+ years for a sobering lesson in how badly things can go wrong.

Of course another factor is politics, internal and external to science. If your results show a study or worse sub-field is wrong, well, I don't have to tell you what happens. Except that your results might get accepted when the existing gatekeepers die off.

ADDED: in the relatively hard sciences, there are few fields more "politicized" than the "biomedical and life sciences". The work is difficult, math is generally not a forte of the researchers, the greater stakes are high (e.g. "a cure for cancer"), etc.

Still, science seems to do this better than most other fields.
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Funny, I'm actually biased towards Dropbox. I use it for most of my stuff because of the versioning and the Packrat feature. But there's no reason for Dropbox not to do direct LAN syncing, and no reason for AeroFS not to offer infinite versioning. It may be more complex to design, but definitely feasible. So I don't think that this is an apples-vs-oranges comparison.
The percent of papers that are fraudulent is probably more like 95+% if you count:

- Papers where the authors fabricate data

- Papers where bad data is hidden

- Papers with named authors who didn't contribute to the research. (This alone is ~30% of all papers in medical journals.)

- Papers with conflicts of interest that weren't reported.

- Papers with improper usage of statistics.

- Papers where the results and conclusions don't match the data.

- Papers where the results / conclusion aren't epistemologically justified for other reasons.

- Papers that weren't published/written because they showed negative results.

- Papers that don't follow the methodological best practices for their given area of research.

- Papers that incorrectly summarize previous research.

- Papers that rely on flawed assumptions.

- Papers that purposely ask the wrong question(s) in order to mislead the reader.

- Papers that are intellectually dishonest in some other way.

Basically if you want to know the percentage of research that is truly fraudulent when you use a more expansive definition, 95% is probably the lower bound for many if not most academic fields.
> for taking people off-planet and (eventually) to other ones, and back.

Aren't they planning one way trips ?
Exactly. Maybe we can learn from ASF in that regard and pull in some of the philosophy to opensource orgs such as the GNU, the Linux, the VideoLAN of the worlds; in my experience, you don't get much love as a newbie in most of those projects (in comparison)
Yup, jpegtran is a must for post-processing adobe images.

It can also do a lossless conversion to progressive format.

Most people do not know about it though. JPEGOPTIM is another one.

You can examine what's embedded in the image here http://regex.info/exif.cgi

but there are better offline tools.
Oh hey, it's in scribble!
Neat, I thought that that was an only a Racket thing...
That's what they do:

Risk is their bread and butter. Difficulty - if it were easy, everyone would be doing it. Illegal - arguable but they're probably just good at not getting caught (and managing the risk of it). See eg. recent libor scandal.
That doesn't make it any less contemporary or cheap. They are operating today, and they cost less. If your goal is to get mass to orbit for the least amount of cash, that's all that matters.
Honestly, I don't want to read articles about "doing x when you're 50" when I'm 50.
They are certainly adding to rails and the skillset required to use it for development. Personally I think that this is a good thing, as web developers we must embrace the new technologies or get left behind.
In more recent versions of rails yes you can use coffee script and sass but you certainly don't have to, they're not removing the ability to write vanilla CSS and jS, I don't see what the problem is.
That's a persuasive argument. But as a research paper, you would probably rate it as fraudulent by your own criterion. Where did that number '95%' come from? I suspect you made it up.

Still, disregarding the irony, a good point.
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People often misunderstand what the Dropbox LAN Sync does.
The file needs to be already in the cloud before it can be synced over LAN. This means that when you add a new file, it will first get uploaded to Dropbox servers then transferred to other computers over LAN.
Considering that most home connections are asynchronous (slow up, fast down) the entire processes gets bottle-necked by that slow upload rate.
I also think this applies more broadly.

When I was in university, one of the mandatory classes in engineering was Professional Development, and one of the threads in that was writing. They stressed "Soon enough you'll be communicating with people with not enough time to hear what you have to say. Get to the point." Sage advice.

I have to encourage those I work with not to do it, sometimes by ignoring the long-form or just stating that I don't have time to review something so lengthy. For design docs, sometimes a few well considered diagrams really are worth a thousand words.
Why would I want to build that product in exchange for equity, which will probably be worthless?

If you don't want to spend money on your idea, chances are it is even more likely to fail than an average startup. This feels like a way to exploit talented and gullible people who want to work at startups.

EDIT: typo
To me that was a bit of a special day: on the one-year anniversary of Steve Jobs' death I get the official notification that I am on the transplant list for a new kidney. (I also spent that morning on the operating table having a PD-catheter installed).
I'm concerned with the poor statistical analysis in the article. I would hope that folks citing bad papers would publish a good one on the subject.

In particular, as you mention, no idea what the per-capita rates are- just that the US and Germany are the biggest offenders.

Then, they claim its harder to detect than they thought - right alongside the time-indexed bar graph of a huge bump in detected fraud in the last few years. Apparently its not easier to detect than every before? Or are they more frequent? Or is there a sampling problem (incomplete data for earlier years/less screening/different methodologies?)

I suspect its because publishing is easier than ever before. We see a lot more science-theatre and less rigorous funded research.
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Those seats look exceptionally uncomfortable, I wonder if there is a reason for that?
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"When will people get the message about grey text on light backgrounds?"
It's nonsense, they are 2 different technologies
I'm not sure why you mix Android, iOS, Facebook and G+. Sure, Android systems tap into existing Google products for some features, but this is not exclusive. The Facebook app, as far as I can tell, works nearly the same on Android and iOS and can also tie into the other infrastructure like contacts. In my experience nothing on Android makes you more likely to use G+.

Especially because G+ is more technical in its uses it caters to another target group than Facebook which I find really refreshing. I don't use G+ for my "real" social life at all, but mostly for my social activities related to technology. Getting those two things separated was a huge step forward for me. Now I don't bother my real-life friends with technology related posts anymore and can take them to an audience that is more likely to be interested.
If it's getting buired in 'noise' are you sure your product isn't just noise?

Make a blog, write about what you're doing and if it's interesting you will find readers. Then ask these visitors to get involved.

The other alternative is to throw down a bunch of cash on PPC advertising.
I realize this is orthogonal to your point, but when it comes to knowledge work, especially startup work, I'm highly skeptical of any prescriptive approach to hours worked.

Optimal hours is of scientific interest, but I think someone in a startup even thinking about this is a bad signal. Instead ultimate productivity is more closely related to how focused they are when they are actually working. It's easy to spend 16 hours a day in the office and fritter it away with a million small but unimportant tasks. Likewise, if you come in and get in the zone for 6 solid hours, you might be able to create something of much larger value than anything the multitasker achieved in a frenzied and overworked 80-hour week.

Of course the holy grail is combining a high degree of focus with extended hours, but you can't manufacture this. This is probably the best argument for hiring young idealistic people over seasoned veterans it that they are more likely to naturally put in a lot more hours. However, even unspoken peer pressure to stay in the office is going to be counterproductive, ideally you want people to work as long as they are productive and then unplug completely to recharge quickly. If you get it right and create the right kind of excitement and intrinsic motivation then you can get large gains of subconscious problem-solving as well.
Unless a company schedules and recognizes time and content that an employee puts into something like Yammer, it's useless. It's yet another informal communication method that won't be used.
"Where did that number '95%' come from? I suspect you made it up."

I don't think there is any research that has a single group of raters look at all of these categories at once, but there is a lot of research that looks at them separately. E.g. as I mentioned, "According to a study published in JAMA, 11 percent of the articles published in peer-reviewed medical journals are written by 'ghost authors.' (And 19 percent of the articles named 'honorary authors' who had not contributed enough to the research and writing to justify being listed as authors.)" That's up to 30% of all papers that are fraudulent right off the bat.

Because many of these categories have been looked at separately it's not hard to figure out that the total for all research has to be at least 95%. Also, if you look at what percentage of papers can't be replicated:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21528826.000-is-medica...

It's clear that the vast majority of research seems to be just made up out of thin air to begin with. And the percentage of research that can be replicated but that is fraudulent in some other way is similarly high. What it comes down to is that much if not most of modern science is basically just a giant make-work program for pseudo-intellectuals that's designed to produce marketing propaganda for corporations and prevent political unrest.
If you use a strong master password, and given that 1Password uses a secure key-derivation function, does it really matter if your 1Password file is sitting somewhere in the cloud?
What a load of ignorant, arrogant, pretentious, content-free nonsense....
I'm not saying you make it easy so you can catch thieves and avoid having your stuff stolen. I'm saying you make it easy because, I figure, less ethical people are more likely to steal, so it lets you weed out bad people in general.
Which is entirely different from the conclusion that "tight ship" when it comes to office supplies and similar is actually related to a company's overall success.
The problem isn't just what journals will publish, its how funding is distributed: the modern NIH/NSF grant process gives money for likelihood of producing positive results, which might sounds reasonable on the surface but which leads to perverse incentives like these.
Also, this article keeps repeating cliches. Yeah, sure, I won't get a pat on the head and universal admiration for starting yet another boring and doomed startup (though there's circles of people who will give you even that). Also, if you complain about costs and employee rights and stuff it's likely you will be perceived as a whiner -- justly, in my opinion, if those are stopping you then you probably have no business doing business.

You will, though, still get health insurance on your pre-existing condition, which makes me way more likely to try (again) in Europe than in US. And if you do something that's generally considered useful there's even a chance for you to score some sponsorship money without a VC dangling off it, you just have to do the necessary paperwork to demonstrate you know what you're doing.

In general, even with the crisis and all, we're doing pretty well over here.
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Install iTerm2.

It's a much better terminal emulator that Terminal.
You've given an excellent answer to the question Why is Dropbox's LAN Sync so slow? but the more interesting question is Why don't the Dropbox engineers change how LAN Sync works so it won't be so slow anymore?
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Would it be possible to get fish encryption working with this? I was looking at an encrypted chat alternative at my workplace.
Would you argue knuth is a good modern software developer? Have you ever used latex? It's an outdated unmaintainable piece of crap.. Did he develop anything we would call good software in the past ten years?
"Europe has trailed America for decades, partly because of a tricky environment for entrepreneurs." Disagreeing with that from the start or the article. It realy depends upon what industry you look at, many sucessful entrepreneurs all around the World. Some countries are more suited to enableing them in one area as apposed to other countries and also the feild. Writting books, software and alot of inventions can be done with a extreemly low startup cost. So without clearcut examples it is hard for me as a European to understand. I will accept VC/finance may be easier or was easier in America for some feilds and still is, but a entrepreneur is by definition somebody who trancends the limitations that are normal and as such stands out.

Goverments with regards to getting involved in Buisness do it in many ways, grants for research helps in a area that creates buisness's without directly doing so. Buisness's that are well extablished and come to a country can deal with goverments for TAX breaks, no startups/new companies can realy do that or leverage that area of govermentale assistance, they get breaks like all new companies.

As for the rest of the article is is realy just focusing lossly upon technology and offers nothing tangable to highlight things. If it had a interview with somebody who tried to setup a technology company in europe and then endedup going to america to do things as it was easier, then the article would have made more sence and of had a good example.

Given the author was involved with Messagelabs who's HQ is located in the UK and not the USA, then I would of expected more references to the direction the article takes. More so as that company would seem to highlight against the article as it was started in the UK, grew well, sold to Symantic for large pile of £'s and not $'s indicating a succesful startup in a country thats in Europe.

So again can see why I disagree on many levels with this article, sorry.
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What's the best way of writing this. Is it x87 or 87x faster? Thank goodness it wasn't x86 faster as that would have confused me.

On a related note, I've been using Livedrive for a number of years now and they have a lan transfer option to obtain a file over the network than over the internet. I suspect however a lot of use cases are separated by the internet and generally aren't on the same network.

What would be awesome however is if after the sync both computers were able to contribute to uploading the file to the live server. So I could sync my files over lan to my laptop, go to work, then have my home/work computer upload them to the net, thus 2x quicker to store it in the cloud. But that would be a bit of an edge use case I think.
damit, in the time I spent explaining why I thought it was a bad article you came up with a much simpler explanation.
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So, which language should they use? Java? C#? Knuth's MIX?

What if the job requires a different language -- does the Engineer's professional certification suddenly become invalid, thus denying him work because of a technicality, even though he otherwise has tons of experience in that language?

Also - that would really fragment the hiring scene. But a bonanza for the testing company.
So... I've tried to sign up as a 'job seeker' 3 times in the last hour and it simply doesn't work. The sidebar targeting arrow just jumps down to the 'startups' tab after clicking 'register'.
While I agree with the opinion of the article, the content is quite superficial. Some things that arent mentioned could have a much bigger impact in the long run than some school programming project in Estonia:
- The European Venture Capital Funds Regulation being finalised this year
- The agreed enddate for SEPA, the harmonization of all European Payment Infrastructures being set for 2014...

Especially in the area of mobile payments I see a huge market potential because of the unique structure of the EU. If you travel through Northern Europe for example, you have the Euro in Finland, the Danish Krone in Denmark which is pegged to the Euro and then the Swedish Krone and the Norwegian Krone... A mobile app that would allow you to pay anything directly in Euros without having to convert into local currencies all the time would have huge value for the tourists - and the people selling stuff to them as well.
With harmonized payment infrastructures and harmonized legal regimes this should be trivial to implement...
Before you read the article I may suggest looking at this ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MessageLabs )company the author was involved with "Jos White is a partner at Notion Capital, a venture fund focused on cloud and SaaS startups. He was previously a founder of three companies, including MessageLabs, which was acquired by Symantec in 2008 for $700m". Then the article become funny.
This is also how SpiderOak's LAN sync works. Both Dropbox and SpiderOak guarantee that the single point of truth is the cloud, for good reason.

Making exceptions to that approach (like allowing individual machines to sync with eachother directly before transferring to the cloud) creates opportunities for conflicts and inconsistencies that are very difficult to resolve because all the information might not be available.
my employer brought up the book Tom had written and said technically it belonged to him

I'm assuming this was stored on a company-provided computer?

IANAL but to be clean you should impose a firewall between employer-provided equipment and your project. Do your coding or book writing on your own computer.

Legal issues aside, it makes it harder for them to get their paws on it. And if you're fired you've still got access to it.
Which has an unclosable popup ad for its onsite, covering most of the content.
Always hilarious when "experts" lump some 50 countries into a single entity just to draw wildly inaccurate and speculative conclusions because they can't be bothered to do the research required.
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